"I don't think Gilbert is that kind of person. He wouldn't mock her for being honest about how she feels." Viola said, watching as he turned his head back toward her at her words.
"Hmm, you are so familiar with him now, aren't you, sunshine?" He said with a soft laugh as he reached out and pulled her closer. "I suppose you are right, he won't dare mock her feelings, because he will have to answer to me. But that doesn't change the fact that he is going to hurt her." He paused, then whispered into her hair, "Hold me. I want to feel your arms around me." And just like that he lost the battle he had been quietly fighting against himself all evening, and when she wrapped her arms around him, he found a peace in it that nothing else had given him all day.
